PRISON FOR THIEVES

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3792, 9 August 1932, Page 5

PRISON FOR THIEVES

DISQUIETING SERIES OF

OFFENCES WANG ANTI SENTENCES (Per Press Association.) Wanganui, August- 8. “This cla**s of crime is becoming altogether too common, and it is very disquieting to find young men like these going .about Hi* country as they have been doing entering shops, damaging properly and taking goods, 7 ’ said Mr Justice MacGregor art the Supreme Court to-day, when imposing terms -of imprisonment r>n prisoners who had pleaded. guiVty to charges of breaking, ctitering ajncl theft. “I see no reason. for extend* itig probation. ’ ’ Herbert Buttroy, labourer, 24| wit-li 17 charges, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment'. Thomas Butler, farmer. 30, w\as sentenced to one year’s imprison* Victor Ward, labourer, 24, was sentenced to two years, a n d Clnronco Davey, labourer, 24, to two years. These four men were concern ed in a series of 18 burglaries which occurred l at AVangauui between December. 1931, and July, 1032. THE RATA CARE Clarence Woods, 24, and Francis Durran, 29. both labourers, were each sentenced to nine months’ impritsonment c*n charges relating to the attempted breaking .and entering of a store at Rata, near Wanganui.